My Sony Trinitron served me well back in the day - But no, I don't miss the CRT era. Just too huge and heavy. And honestly I don't remember the generic non-Trinitron CRTs being anything special, they were kind of shitty.
Anyways I thought the CRT thing is just collectors/old school gamers looking to display older media on a proper CRT? Obviously people with a lot of space, garages, basements, etc.. people in tiny rooms and apartments need not apply LOL.
This whole article seems a bit off.
OP's example use case in the post was with the internet still being up. Building off of that yes, I'd log into the power switch remotely via the internet where I can then power cycle anything plugged into it - for me it was just to restart unresponsive desktops or whatever was plugged into it.
But you wouldn't need internet to power cycle the internet router itself by using scheduled tasks. e.g. the power switch can check that the internet router is responding to pings every x seconds/minutes and power cycle it if stops responding. (it has other checks/conditions it can use besides simple pings)
That said my own equipment rarely/never needs a reboot so in the case my network loses internet access it usually means the internet is actually down, nothing I can do about that aside from maintaining backup internet if I needed.
if the primary internet router goes offline but the internet isn’t out (ie a router reboot would fix the problem)
Maybe you just need to give it a simple power cycle remotely? There are devices that do that sort of thing, I have a Digital Loggers Web Power Switch Pro that I've used on-and-off over the years for this purpose.
https://www.digital-loggers.com/
At one point I had to relocate for half a year while needing to remote access a slightly unstable desktop that wouldn't always reboot cleanly and get stuck at the BIOS, it sometimes needed a couple of power cycles to come back online. The Power Switch was perfect for that, I'd log into it remotely and power cycle anything that was plugged into it.
It should work for routers too e.g. it can automatically power cycle something plugged into it based on different conditions like maybe it stops responding to pings or whatever. Or I guess if you had multiple IPs / multiple internet connections the switch itself can stay online and accessed remotely without needing to schedule anything automatic.
Pretty sure there are more pro-level (and more expensive) types of devices to do this sort of thing if you look around
I have a bit of a dilemma with my DIY NAS rig.
Does your setup have any way to do noise insulation? I suspect the answer is no but figured I'd throw it out there, surprisingly noise insulation helps more than you'd think. I have a bunch of drives inside a desktop case with insulation panels built in and the drives themselves are in there with rubber anti vibration screws/mounts. Barely ever hear anything from the drives (granted my WD Reds are probably quieter than your current Seagates).
Just something to think on whether it's an option for your current NAS rig or a future configuration.
The WD sales are decent if you're buying new so if you're feeling like it's time for a purchase this might be worth it for you.
I did the same earlier this year though in my case I tend to buy the current gen large capacity WD Reds & stick with them for a few years at least. When their 24 TB / 26 TB drives went on sale they actually were cheaper than what Newegg / Amazon had done with their own sales up to then so for me it was worth it.
The other thing to keep in mind, if you're in the U.S., the whole tariff situation isn't going to make this stuff any cheaper in the future.
Eh, sure OP could do that. Does seem a bit over the top for OP to pursue the most complicated backup solution possible :D Maybe as a strange experiment to see how it goes, not as a trusted backup solution. (like you said not for critical data)
IPFS would also require more bandwidth vs just about any other solution since it has to constantly talk to other IPFS nodes. And more finicky, last I used IPFS the client would run into memory leaks and other weirdness requiring restarts every now and then (hopefully it's more stable for long-term runs nowadays).
Similar but no, Syncthing does not use bittorrent or the bittorrent protocol.
Though if you're curious Resilo Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) is similar to Syncthing and does use bittorrent.
Wouldn't be a good solution, you're hoping that other users are going to volunteer to pin (aka store and seed) your personal backup data for you.
Using IPFS for personal backups is exactly the same as creating a torrent with your backup data - With both it would be unlikely that your personal backup data will actually exist anywhere beyond your own data storage, no one's going to freely volunteer to store your backups for you.
Agree with you, SO is great for finding info. There are solutions on there for niche problems that I haven't been able to find elsewhere, the type of thing where someone actually took the time to type out a step-by-step answer and it's now there and searchable on SO. It's a bummer that so many people seem to hate on the site nowadays.
And lets not forget the whole reason SO came out in the first place, back then web results were littered with question/answer links to sites like Experts-Exchange. I hated trying to figure out if an answer was on there, most of the time you ended up with a link to a question that you think has an answer but oh no you need to subscribe to view an answer that may or may not exist.
Was going to comment the same, this issue has existed for some time for other apps. LibreTorrent ran into the same issue and now the F-Droid version is their full-featured app while the Google Play version is restricted due to Google.
Interesting that Nextcloud managed to last this long on Google Play without running into the same limitations (until now that is).
Agreed - I'll also add that a lot of internet gateways/routers/firewalls also have a built-in feature to update a domain with your current public IP address. It definitely makes it easy, I haven't thought about needing to update my dynamic IP in years since it just happens on the router.
Not everyone can do it but it's definitely worth a look especially for those planning to do any real self hosting.
Wake on LAN is a LAN feature, not WAN, so you'd need to issue that over the local LAN there at the house. You're going to have a hard time trying to get that working over the WAN (if that's even possible).
The other comments mentioning a scheduled boot would be a much easier/simple solution if it works for you.
But I'll throw this in, the super basic least tech solution to this is to open a port forward to the house's network router. Yes, I know you don't want to do that, but it's probably the only network device at that house that's actually on 24/7 right? And by all means lock it down however you like. My simple method is to open the router login to a non-standard port number, with a IP whitelist, add my own home IP address to that IP whitelist, and bam you now have access to that remote home's router for just your IP address. Log in remotely, issue a wake on LAN via the router's own web ui, done.
It's perfectly reasonable to make this a bit more secure if you wanted but it gets slightly more complicated - open a non-standard port for SSH access to the remote router's SSH port that only allows SSH login with key. Generate a SSH key and share that key with yourself, then you can log in remotely to that remote house via non-standard SSH port using the SSH key (no user/passwords). From there you'd have to see if you can issue Wake on LAN on the SSH command line, or set up a SSH tunnel from that remote LAN to yours so you can proxy into the router login page and do your Wake on LAN from there. ... yes I realize this got complicated :/ But you've got a few things to explore given your patience for tinkering with this stuff :)
Of course much of this relies on that house's router having any of these features to enable and configure. The main takeaway here is that Wake on LAN requires something on 24/7 at that remote LAN for you to enable remote access into and issue a Wake on LAN command within that LAN. How to actually accomplish that is the tricky bit.